Robert Durst on a ventilator after contracting COVID-19, lawyer says
Durst, 78, wasThursday for murdering his close friend, Susan Berman, inside her Benedict Canyon home in 2000. The real estate heir was in “very bad condition” during the sentencing hearing, according to his lead defense attorney, Dick DeGuerin.
“He was having difficulty breathing and he was having difficulty communicating,” DeGuerin said in an email to The Times. “He looked worse than I’ve ever seen him and I was very worried about him.” DeGuerin confirmed that Durst had been hospitalized and placed on a ventilator. Durst has been held in a wing of USC Medical Center under the watch of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department throughout the trial, but it was not immediately clear if he was still in that facility or when or where he became infected with the coronavirus.Robert Durst, 78, will spend the rest of his life in a California prison for the fatal shooting of his longtime confidante, Susan Berman, in 2000.
Calls and emails to the Sheriff’s Department, a court spokeswoman and the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office were not immediately returned on Saturday. Dozens of people packed into an eighth-floor courtroom at the Airport Courthouse for Durst’s sentencing earlier this week and it was not immediately clear if anyone else associated with the proceedings had contracted the virus.
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